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Eating healthy requires acquired taste obedience for many reasons as a lifestyle. While most food addicts follow undiscriminating diets, eating healthy means making choices that we hope will keep bodies and minds healthy and well. A healthy lifestyle offers no assurances of longevity. Eating healthy results rely mostly on faith through obedience in optimizing your living life by choice.

In Corinthians 6:19-20: Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies. Many forget that phrase, especially when it comes to eating healthy. A few remember that, as a body temple, how, what, and when you eat is bound to body and soul and even fewer practice eating healthy.

A recent recent study published in the Journal of the American Health Association Journal 3/7/2017, discusses observations of those eating healthier as a means of dieting. The article, Change in Percentages of Adults With Overweight or Obesity Trying to Lose Weight, 1988-2014 indicates that there is a percentage loss among these dieters when compared to studies in 1990. About 2 out of every 3 Americans are either overweight or obese, a decline of 7 percent means millions more people may have given up on dieting. The stumbling block is a motivational drop-off. Those who focus on eating healthy make a life-long commitment, for whatever the results.

Eating a healthy diet and what it means starts at younger ages. When integrated into a learning process when younger, eating healthy is normal. It is definitely a nurturing process.

Eating healthy requires acquired taste obedience as an alternate lifestyle. While there are many foods considered healthy, there are some with dietary restrictions due to illnesses. Among the lists of healthy foods, there are serving size considerations. Eating healthy requires focus and acquired taste as an alternate lifestyle sense of obedience. In most cases and situations, eating healthy in a world surrounded by snacks and sugary desserts, is a form of strict discipline. After all, eating healthy is not normal. There are so many attractive, delicious less healthy foods all over the place.

At the supermarket, the customer in front of me purchased 5 largebags of assorted chips, 2 boxes of crackers, 2 pounds M&M’s, potato salad, cole slaw, 10 liters of Coke and 2 packs of cookies. She also added about a dozen of those Ramen noodle soups in a cup. Thankfully, she added family packs chicken and steak. I noted to her that it looks like a great diet. She says, “That’s what my family wants. I make them happy.” While eating healthy requires discipline, eating unhealthy delivers quick gratifications of happiness. It’s a sharp contrast of rewards.

If you look at supermarket circulars, many listings promote normal lifestyles. Some support healthy lifestyles, where available. People choosing to eat healthy is a minority.

Eating healthy is akin to a religion. There are guides and scores of information. There are no spiritual leaders. The adage of “Seek and Ye Shall Find” requires lots of fervor. The rewards are fewer diseases, weight management, and going to heaven later than sooner. Most do not follow this faith. They’d rather die happy with lunches of 2 burger deluxe and 2 cans of coke. While eating healthy requires a tossed salad or sandwich on multi-grain bread, with spring water. Quite an alternative! Who is happier? Who is sicker?

How and what you eat influences your health and mental state. Eating unhealthfully may affect your body weight, blood pressure, your spine, your arteries, your heart, and brain. It may confuse hormones and the vital fluids that flow through them. There are no guarantees that your body won’t suffer by eating healthy, but eating healthy might skew the variables to your favor.

Statistics do seem to show that unhealthful eating and physical inactivity may result in disabilities as you age. An unhealthy diet may a leading cause of disability. Unhealthy eating habits and physical inactivity are leading causes of loss of independence: Roughly 73,000 people have lower-limb amputations each year due to diabetic infections that may develop in obese people. Based on the Center for Science in the Public Interest over 600,000 deaths per year in the United States have been associated with unhealthy eating and inactivity.

According to studies at EPIC-Oxford, vegetarians had lower rates of mortality from pancreatic cancer and lymphatic cancer. Semi-vegetarians had lower rates of death from pancreatic cancer. Pesco-vegetarians had lower death rates from all cancers but higher rates of cardiovascular diseases.

Although dietary supplements of vitamins and antioxidants are helpful, eating a balanced diet is vital for good health and wellbeing. Food provides our bodies with the energy, protein, essential fats, vitamins and minerals to live, grow and function properly, according to the National Institutes of Health.

Eating healthy may help allow longer, active lives because people followed a healthy lifestyle AND avoided unhealthy eating and inactivity.

For the long term, gaining weight to obesity and the potential for numerous nutritional diseases, many tend not to follow health maintenance and rehabilitation over the long term. While much is written about eating healthy foods, there are no real specific formulas (many contradict) what a healthy eating diet implies.

Thus, the popular umbrella over eating healthy does require more science research and evidence of what eating healthy means, along with benefits and consequences.

There are some who have genetic and/or developmental problems with foods that are deemed part of what eating healthy accepts.

Sometimes the rules for eating healthy don’t apply. For example, nuts are considered healthy. Tree nut or seed allergies, for some people, may be extremely harmful allergens. Tree nuts can cause a severe, potentially fatal, allergic reaction (anaphylaxis). Tree nuts include, but are not limited to, walnut, almond, hazelnut, cashew, pistachio, and Brazil nuts. Seeds include sunflower or sesame. Most packages notify if a food product was manufactured in a factory that is exposed to nuts or seeds. Having a soy allergy might knock out even more products.

While meat, poultry and fish are (by small servings) traditionally great sources of complex proteins, many people watch their blood cholesterol levels and triglyceride levels.

Then, of course, there are those that are gluten-free – no wheat products. Diabetics have to watch carbohydrate intake – basically all foods that grow from the earth. As you see, for many, eating healthy faces some very difficult obstacles. No way fits all. Eating healthy diets might also be dangerous to your health!

Eating healthy and setting activities may have something to do with appearance or fashionable vanity – Body Image. People are seeking more than health – attraction, romance, perceived fashionability, social – and eating healthy or obsessively healthy can lead to eating disorders that are also harmful for health. Eating healthy for health and wellness might be individually specific. As a consumer cyclical, more money, more marketing, high motivation is spent on getting the body image you seek. Eating healthy as a lifestyle may be targeted at more than personal health. The aim may be more social. Those that eat healthy may also pursue many activities and seek to make their bodies as attractive as possible.

Bariatric surgery is often advertised on TV. It clips an area of your stomach to inhibit food intake. The use of bariatric surgery is suggested for those people who weigh 100 pounds or more than their average weight and have related health issues. When asked why they were pursuing bariatric surgery, the answers were generally, “tried everything else to improve my body image.” Health was often secondary as they received medicine for that.

Despite side effect possibilities from bariatric surgery, and possible dangers with any surgery, it is a very popular route to improved body image. The number of bariatric surgeries increased to 179,000 in 2013 with 34.2% of surgeries as Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, 14% gastric banding, 42.1% gastric sleeve, 1% as duodenal switch, 6% as revisional surgery and 2.7% classified as other (American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery).

As one of my early internships, I sat in with groups who had the surgery and I observed, over a course of of 6 months, that several regained their weight and complained about vomiting when they ate too much. Most in the groups had depressive states due to no visible improvements in body image and social successes.

For all of those people with sensitivities and diseases, eating healthy might be extremely challenging. Among the reasonably healthy population, finding ways of healthy nutrition is easier. It still requires motivation and fortitude. It may require acquired tastes and compromises but easily adaptable via a continuous lifestyle.

Sadly, many people compromise their options and sensitivities. For quite a few people, eating healthy is filled with unique challenges. Then again, for numerous reasons, noy eating healthy may contribute yo developing diabetes 2.

Eating healthy is about eating the right foods, at the right times, with suggested servings. A serving is usually a few ounces. That may mean that a big salad or large steak each day might be more toxic.

Choosing a healthier diet of foods for weight management or some irregular blood score may be helpful. See if your physician can refer you to a qualified nutritionist. For those that eat healthy as a lifestyle, regardless of age, your discriminating dietary obedience MAY pay off with more robust spirit with generally good feeling and body image.

A growing number of people regard the biblical concept of the body as a temple (whether observant or not). Eating healthy is a discipline and habit that you observe through your life span.

Scientifically, eating healthy doesn’t necessarily guaranty that your overall life, wellness, and body image will be excellent. There is a faith and motivation quotient that following a wellness lifestyle will be better than not following one. It is alternative thinking that makes sense to you. As any lifestyle, eating healthy requires motivation, rules, obedience and pleasure.

Eating healthy isn’t a matter of deprivation. If you are celebrating and see attractive food, sample it. Just don’t eat the entire portion. You deserve it. Just don’t exceed serving sizes.

Many might agree or disagree. Eating healthy is an individual choice. For many, healthy food is an acquired taste compared to average eaters. No temple is the same as another. Vive la différence! Choose which healthy mode you want to obey.

Your body may be leased from God but your body health is part of you and your personal responsibility. Seek and find your paths to eating healthy. Any thoughtful healthy actions you contribute may help you live a little bit better.

Are you a carbohydrate addict? Chances are high that you are. In many situations, this might be considered a healthy addiction. It has helped humans survive for thousands of years. Most don’t realize it. Until, of course, we get drunk from them. Ultimately, we gain weight and develop all sorts of ailments due to excessive weight gain.

Many diets are based on calories. If you are a certain weight, you need a certain amount of calories. Eat more than you need, you gain weight. Eat less, you lose. Activity helps you lose by using calories. These calories are derived as energy measurements primarily based on carbohydrate addictions. That is where many calories are found. Gluconeogenesis is like methodone to a heroin addict. You get energy from food but you can’t have carbohydrates.

We all have addictions we grapple with. Some may be drugs, alcohols, foods and or other substances. We have behavioral addictions and these repetitive notions can alter our senses of wellness. Yet, most of us live day-to-day in an adaptive schema. That is, until one notices differences. Today, weight management is one of those observable problems. Virtually anybody will dole out wise advice about this and that to do. Most weight management problems are results of eating habits and contemporary perspectives that being thin is in. But we love our carbohydrates! Gluconeogenesis is a built-in system that helps us manage weight if we virtually eliminate carbohydrates from our diet. A Gluconeogenesis diet for carbohydrate addiction uses a body’s natural processes to create energy for living with minimal intake of carbohydrates.

Your kidney, liver, and brain can produce all the carbohydrates your body needs via gluconeogenesis. Gluconeogenesis relates to that process. A diet of less than 40 grams of carbohydrates per day will, over the course of weeks or months, will help shed pounds via ketosis.. You may eat protein and fat from fish and meat sources. If you have cholesterol issues, this is not the diet for you.

Whether you find yourself fashionably challenged by weight gain or whether you confront new health issues associated with excess weight, there are many solutions. Some are faster. Some are slower. Some don’t work at all. The problems may not lie in your motivations but lie as to how dietary carbohydrates (sugars, starches) are used. stored, and eliminated by the body. This is a very involved and difficult process extending from thousands of years of evolution. The process is referred as Gluconeogenesis. Sometimes fashion and health benefits seem massive achievements because this process runs against reason and appetite control.

Humans were probably first vegetarians as carbohydrates are found in fruits, vegetables, and grains. They are digested as sugars and starches that are easy fuel sources that help sustain body maintenance and growth. Glucose, a form of sugar, is essential for brain functioning. Lactate, another sugar, aids muscle development. We are born carbohydrate addicts.

We must have our carbohydrates. They are the premium fuel sources our body needs. They also taste good, an inviting reward. Yet, imbalances of carbohydrates and storage lead to fat accumulation and other organic problems. Blood glucose levels must be maintained within a narrow range for good health. If blood sugar is too high, it results in tissue and organ damage. If it is too low, cellular respiration and energy production can suffer.

One of those organs is the pancreas. The pancreas is a gland that produces insulin that helps maintain glucose levels every second. If blood sugar is too high, and the pancreas does not generate enough insulin, diabetes may be a result. While some are born with diabetes as a condition, many become diabetic because their lifestyle makes them drunk with sugar.

There are organs that help filter levels of anything that are too high. The ability of the liver and kidneys to “make new sugar” and regulate blood sugar levels is critical. Sugars are basic body fuel and if it isn’t present, your body has otherwise inert systems to generate those essential sugars.

The Atkins Diet, a form of ketogenic diet, are a difficult dietary trick that sharply reduce the carbohydrate intake you and your body are accustomed to having. The alternative food sources are fats and proteins. How does the body generate glucose when no carbohydrates are present? This is where natural gluconeogenesis is necessary. If gluconeogenesis were absent, you wouldn’t live very long. Your body must have a constant and steady level of blood glucose to keep the brain and red blood cells function. Severely limiting carbohydrate intake, a ketogenic diet allows consumption of fat and proteins, mostly from meat and fish sources that naturally have no carbohydrates. Are ketogenic diets trying to kill you?

The Atkins diet program has since released a more modified ketogenic diet design for vegans. Called the Eco-Diet Plan, this allows up to 130g carbohydrate intake. Gluconeogenesis is slower resulting in slower weight reduction. Beleve it or not, a medium mixed salad has about 130g carbohydrates! But the Eco-Diet takes protein and fats from vegan sources, such as Soy as Tofu. Tofu has less than 2g carbohydrates per serving.

Addictions are difficult to drop. Habitual drug and alcohol users go through agony to attempt escape from addictions. They are lifelong efforts. Gluconeogenesis is your body’s metabolic process of making glucose, a necessary body fuel, from non-carbohydrate sources such as protein (amino acids), lactate from the muscles and the glycerol component of fatty acids. The problem is…like the alcoholic…you find the carbohydrate addiction is hard to break. In a world where carbohydrates constitute most foods (including alcoholic drinks), the ketogenic diet is a problem of will against matter and matter always and usually wins.

The ketogenic diet is a high-fat, adequate-protein, low-carbohydrate diet that in medicine is used primarily to treat difficult-to-control (refractory) epilepsy in children. The diet forces the body to burn fats rather than carbohydrates. There are several ketogenic diets and they stress that no more than 60 grams of carbohydrates can be eaten each day. A slice of bread has about 20 grams. An 8-ounce glass of milk has 13 grams and 8 ounces of Orange Juice has 30 grams of carbohydrates.

Ketosis is a state at which the body has an extremely high fat-burning rate because fats are being converted by the lover and kidneys by gluconeogenesis to create the sugars needed to run your body. It does not have carbohydrates so insulin production is low.

When there is not enough insulin to get sugar from the blood and into the cells, the body turns to fat for energy. When fat is broken down, ketone bodies are made and can accumulate in the body. High levels of ketones are toxic to the body and may be tested through urine monitoring. These are generally regarded thresholds for ketogenic diets:

Below 0.5 mmol/L is not considered “ketosis”. At this level, you’re far away from maximum fat-burning.

Between 0.5-1.5 mmol/L is light nutritional ketosis. You’ll be getting a good effect on your weight, but not optimal.

Around 1.5 – 3 mmol/L is what’s called optimal ketosis and is recommended for maximum weight loss.

Values of over 3 mmol/L aren’t neccessary. They will achieve neither better nor worse results than being at the 1.5-3 level. Higher values can also sometimes mean that you’re not getting enough food or developing ketoacidosis.

Is it safe? With all rapid diets approaches, you should consult with a qualified physician before you begin and have frequent monitoring. The ketogenic diet has mixed reviews where some love and support it and others issue caution. Virtually eliminating sugars and elevating ketones through gluconeogenesis is the exact opposite of how your body functions normally. Gluconeogenesis is a complex process of how the body performs and copes with severe reductions on carbohydrate intake and there is a transitional period between the two that may have comparable symptoms to an addict in withdrawal.

On average, glucose is necessary. But how much? The daily glucose requirement of the brain in a typical adult human being is about 120 grams, which accounts for most of the 160 grams of glucose needed daily by the whole body. There are slight plusses and minuses associated with activity. How many grams of carbohydrates do you eat daily? Are you overfeeding your body’s needs?

Not all carbohydrates are bad. Some are actually good for you. Unhealthy high carbohydrate foods include sugary cereals, crackers, cakes, flours, jams, preserves, bread products, refined potato products, and sugary drinks are full of sugars. Sugars are common carbohydrates.

Some typically, everyday sources of carbs: A 16-ounce bottle of Snapple Lemon Tea has 36 grams of carbohydrates. A 10-ounce bottle of Juicy Juice (no sugar added) is 26 grams. One slice of bread offers about 18 grams of carbohydrates but a sandwich has at least 36 grams. A slice of pizza has 42 grams of carbohydrates. Sandwich and Coke? 16-ounce bottle of Coca Cola add 50 grams of carbohydrates + 36 grams sandwich. A bagel has 48 grams of carbohydrates. A medium serving of French Fries has about 50 grams carbohydrates. Vegetarian? A Chipotle Vegetarian Burrito has 50 grams of carbohydrates.

Basically, a bagel (dry), a bottle of Coca Cola, and French Fries has almost the daily sugar requirement your brain and body needs. Of course what lunch is complete without a cup of coffee. A Grande Latte at Starbucks adds 18 grams of carbohydrates with no sugar added. Each packet of sugar adds 6 grams of carbohydrates. It is really easy to provide your body with the daily sugars it needs to function from just one meal. Anything above that is excess )and whether foods have added fat or not) unused carbohydrates are converted as fat for storage.

Glucogenesis works on a temporary basis if you don’t eat for 12 or more hours. Breakfast is literally breaking your night fast. If you eat dinner before 6:00pm, and rise at 8:00am (with no snacking in between) glucogenesis may be occurring in a small way. This method helps keep current weight stable. The problem is many of us don’t follow that regimen. We might have wine, beer, chips and other snacks prior to bed. Wake up to more stored fat. Those foods are packed with carbohydrates that keep your pancreas working when it shouldn’t.

The idea behind the ketogenic and Gluconeogenesis diets is removing (or drastically reducing carbohydrates) in food intake. Fat, liver, kidneys, and muscle functions can automatically provide body with 160 grams it requires. Instead you can eat fat, protein, and water. Gluconeogenesis is a metabolic pathway that results in the generation of glucose from certain non-carbohydrate sources that may still have carbon.

Ketogenic and Gluconeogenesis are not normal body states. Avoiding carbohydrates makes your body do strange things that it did not originally adapt for. Your body will adapt as it confronts survival but only if you can stick to the regimen over a lifestyle choice. This is not a quick fix or on/off diet approach. There are pros and cons that you must consult with your physician or nutritional professional.

But adaptation speeds are often slow. It can take as long a eight weeks for some to adapt while others may see some results within three weeks. The key to a successful Gluconeogenesis diet is you really can’t cheat. This may be associated with most other addiction programs but your body can actually adapt to withholding carbohydrates. But can your eyes and nose empower you?

A ketogenic or Gluconeogenesis diet is not to be taken lightly as an on-again or off-again repetitive regimen. It is a religious lifestyle choice that must be followed for weight management. The subtle shifts made by your vital organs may decay if used unwisely. A Gluconeogenesis diet is a lifetime prescription that must be monitored and followed for a lengthy commitment.

People are addicted to many things ordinary and extraordinary. Weight management often copes with variables that we are addicted to. Some bodies adapt while others grow sick. Choosing a gluconeogenesis diet for carbohydrate addiction requires many new adaptations and the common food selections available at diners aren’t very friendly. You really have to seriously consider whether you are ready to manage your weight and follow through.

A physician, through basic blood tests, can advise and alert if a Gluconeogenesis diet is good for you and may help manage it along the way. The real deal is whether you have the discipline to stick to this form of lifestyle. You don’t need to exercise heavily. You don’t need to count calories (only grams of carbs). Avoiding more than 40 to 60 grams of carbohydrates per day is your route to weight management. Can you do it?

That’s the problem. Gluconeogenesis does not correspond to normal lifestyle eating. Adapting ketogenic diets as a lifestyle is difficult, especially if you become nostalgic for carbohydrate foods. It’s a long word. Finding gluconeogenesis is easier said than done. Of the hundreds of diets and activity regimens, gluconeogenesis is more like a utopia – a shangri-la in a world of carbohydrate addicts. Start slowly and wisely.

Happy New Year 2016.What are your new goals for 2016? Religious and secular new year events often center on health and happiness? Some ask forgiveness oe meditate about past indiscretions. Among those, may be weight loss – intertwined with health and happiness. Us this one of your new goals for 2016? Is it an annual goal at each new year? Is it always prone to failure?

Each year, and with each new year celebration (calendar or ethnic), everyone wishes for new goals to be set or met each year. For many, finding love and weight loss top the list. The problem with new goals for 2016 is that they are mainly repetitions of previous years. That’s because these new goals for 2016 are as lofty and unattainable as previous goals. Many require lifestyle changes and most aren’t ready to pay the price over the long run.

Of new goals for 2016, changing body appearance is almost number one. People realize that books are judged by covers. They are often misleading windows to their content. Barring the busy season for reconstructive surgery, weight maintenance, muscle gain or fat loss are the most sought after goals.

As a regular gym user for over 30 years, I and other regulars often joked how the gyms got filled at the end of December. We knew who they were. By February, the gym was back to normal. That is because people expect change to happen quickly. It doesn’t.

Wisdom dictates that moderate exercise and moderate diet help maintain weight and muscle. For those seeking less weight and more muscle, more effort is required. The process takes years and progress is painfully slow.

According to the National Institutes of Health, nearly two-thirds of the USA population might be classed as obese. While not a disability, there is no simple treatment or cure. It does require contrasting lifestyle changes that seem tortuous and tedious. With all the available resources from all forms of media, weight-loss remains a phantom in the United States. Conquering obesity is as diversely challenging as establishing world peace.

In “get rich quick” or “get healthy quick” societies, people resort to quick methods. These are more life shocking methods for quick results. Some try living on nutrition shakes alone for a few months. (Imagine sustaining yourself on 3 shakes a day and being satisfied.)

Some try diet pills. Others try going to the gym once or twice a month. Every year there are new methods to demonstrate quick goal attainment for happily ever afters. Generally, though, ever afters are very short. The process doesn’t seem worth the sacrifices. Is weight loss a fantasy? Some say, if it is, it is masochistic. It is a lingering problem.

The reason why weight loss is so damned difficult is very simple:

1) As you age, you typically lose lean muscle by 5% each 10 years. As a result, more fat is visible as muscles help contain fat.

2) Excess calorie consumption – Dietician’s indicate that to lose one pound of fat, you need to lose 3500 calories but that has been challenged recently. Typically, to lose body fat if you cut 500 calories from your typical diet each day, you’d lose about 1 pound a week (500 calories x 7 days = 3,500 calories). Is that healthy? How many calories do you need each day?

3) According to webMD categorization based on gender and activity, a woman around age 50, who sits most of the day requires around 1800 calories per day. If she is moderately active, she needs about 2,000 calories per day, and 2200 calories per day active. Men require about 25% more calories. According to Calorie King calculator, a female office worker would need to consume 1100 to 1300 calories per day to lose one pound per week.

4) Exercising more – Apart to the advantages concerning muscle tone and heart rate, how does exercise help lose calories? The Mayo Clinic provides a very good list. According to Mayo Clinic, at a duration of 1 hour, walking burns 214 calories at 2 miles per hour and 300 calories at 3-1/2 miles per hour, if you weigh 160 pounds. If you weigh 200 pounds, it is 255 and 391 calories respectively. Leisure bike riding offers about 40% more calories burned. A low-impact aerobic dance class typically burns over 400 calories per hour at 160 pounds and 600 calories per hour at 200 pounds, Because women are lighter than 160 pounds, the efficacy of working-off calories seems like an aching, slow process in contrast to dieting.

What about fast-acting dietary supplements and drugs?

Many resort to drugs or dietary supplements available and often advertised. They may be mentioned on TV medical shows. These may be quicker methods of dropping weight fast but they carry potential long-term consequences despite popularity. These work at altering basic body functions. Naturally derived, you are strongly advised to see a physician or nutritionist before and during trying these. Many of these supplements may be approved by the USA Food and Drug Administration (FDA) but research testing was small, short, and inconclusive.

A new one is Garcinia Cambogia pills. It, like many other quick methods, was introduced by Dr. Oz on TV. It is hydroxycitric (HCA) acid found in the rind of citrus fruits, primarily grapefruit (the part you usually peel off). It is used for cooking in southeast Asia.

Some very small studies done with few representative samples indicate that Garcinia Cambogia, derived from grapefruit rinds, might also be a natural method for weight loss at doses of hundreds of that found in the rind. HCA, an organic acid, works by making you feel full, reducing your appetite, and affecting metabolism. US Food and Drug Administration approves as a health supplement at doses are between 250 and 1,000 mg each day.

As with all health supplements (example: vitamins), these are chemicals that interact with your body. Garcinia Cambogia works as a drug that helps reduce glucose in your bloodstream and has been used by nutritionists as a possible method to help reduce triglycerides and bad cholesterol. In a WebMD article, side effects may include Dizziness, Dry mouth, Headache, or Upset stomach or diarrhea. Taken habitually, these doses may negatively affect your liver. As a nutritional supplement, standards are not as strict as with prescription drug sources. You may not be getting pure HCA.

Many weight loss supplements may add Caffeine, a key ingredient in coffee and a potential antioxidant to help keep blood vessels clean. Weight loss supplements use higher doses of caffeine than you find in a cup of coffee. The caffeine is derived from natural resources. These may include substances such as guarana (Paullinia cupana), kola (or cola) nut (Cola nitida), and yerba mate (Ilex paraguariensis).

Caffeine is a chemical that works directly on the nervous system and the larger doses may prove harmful. Caffeine is a methylxanthine that stimulates the central nervous system, heart, and skeletal muscles. It also increases gastric and colonic activity and acts as a diuretic for water weight loss. Caffeine might also contribute to weight loss by increasing fat oxidation through sympathetic activation of the central nervous system. As such, as with many CNS activators, it may be addictive. As a short term, less than 2 months at prescribed doses, Caffeine may help weight loss. A caffeine study, however, shows that adding sugar to coffee or chocolate may stimulate weight gain.

What about lifestyle?

The Atkins Diet or Ketosis are lifestyle choices that are in direct contrast to normal and inherited eating habits. These diets virtually eliminate eating carbohydrates. Instead you eat protein and fat. It’s a possibility if you are not monitoring cholesterol levels.

Carbohydrates (examples: grains, fruits, juices, sugars) are very common sources of energy and are found in the USDA recommended food pyramid for daily diets. Atkins and Ketosis (or Ketogenic) limit a maximum of 40 grams of carbohydrates. Of those carbohydrates, they recommend complex carbohydrates (whole grains, soy) over simple (table sugar, white rice). A serving of pasta or rice exceeds the limits of Atkins. A typical sandwich may have 36 grams of carbohydrates or your daily allowance of carbohydrates.

Meats (except organs), fish (except shrimp and lobster) are high protein and moderate fat sources. Soy as Edamame or Tofu are potent vegan sources of protein with lower fat and no cholesterol.

Certain Flat Breads available by mail from Joseph’s Bakery and some other sources offer low-carb breads. After factoring the 7 to 10 grams fiber, the bread has 5 net carbohydrates and about 10 grams of protein. This can help replace bread cravings.

Atkins and Ketosis deliver weight loss over a few months provided you don’t cheat on the 40 grams limit of carbohydrates.

Ketosis has been found beneficial at helping patients with epilepsy. No indications of serious short-term risks have surfaced. It is intended as a method to reach short-term goals quicker than calorie-based diets but maintenance is required for long-term goals and results. You will be less popular at carbohydrate-based social events.

Appearing fashionable and healthy require sacrifices. Appearing younger also require more sacrifices. We live in a culture where parties and celebrations often provide foods in excess followed by sedentary activity. The short term result is weight gain. The long term results are cardio and vascular disease, diabetes, and numerous other diseases. Economically, it aids the pursuit of finding larger size clothing each year.

Some Conclusions

Obesity is a world-wide problem. It may be derived from combinations of foods, snacks, rituals, and lifestyles. Sociologists may bind it to poverty both in the USA and elsewhere. Lack of health insurance and respective availability of certified nutritionists helps assure that even the USA has a lingering problem with obesity and the diseases that may result from them. While those diseases are covered by State and private insurance policies, their prevention is not.

Losing 20, 30, or more pounds of body weight is very difficult. Based on the accepted notion that to lose weight you need to lose 3500 calories per pound demonstrates the need for herculean efforts.

It is not simple. The likelihood of following through a weight-loss program may seem an unattainable goal. It may require high levels of motivation and fortitude.

Aspiring for health and wellness as new goals for 2016 are admirable. Individuals adding weight loss as one of the mew goals for 2016 for better appearance and possible health have much to consider. Realizing and understanding that those new goals for 2016 are filled with sacrifices is wiser. While no results offer guarantees, those new goals for 2016 must carry on to 2017, 2018, and beyond. At the point you meet your goals, then maintenance is easier by choosing moderate diets and exercise that suit your new lifestyle.

In a twist of a famous quote: Comedy is easy. Weight loss is hard. Both have their rewards. For those of you that made it down here, a secret is eating dinner at 6:00 and nothing else. Your body uses fat storage after 12 hours.

Jane Fonda looked youthful and slim as she (along with Lily Tomlin) presented the best actor award at the 72nd Golden Globe Awards. It’s even more amazing that Fonda is an age of 77 years. It seems clear, in this case, when you consider aging and loss of lean muscles (as a state of normal) Jane Fonda and lifestyle choices have been very good investments with high pay offs.

The two-time Academy Award actress is an accomplished actor, political activist, and a fitness guru. She also had a brief stint as a fashion model. 30 years ago, at the pre-menopausal age of 47, Jane Fonda released the first of her workout videos. She continues to make them. When you consider all factors of creative and physical activity, Jane Fonda and lifestyle choices seem to have done well.

While genetics does play significant roles, fitness is associated as a lifestyle as opposed to brief focus periods. Voiced and written extensively, fitness lifestyles do pay off for nearly everyone.

The key problem is reaching your personal, enduring fitness lifestyle and integrating it into all the other things you do. It’s like a religion and there are some personal sacrifices.

Brief diets may promise loss of inches or pounds within weeks but many drop off and gain their original weight back (and then some more). Going from healthy unfit to healthfully fit is often an exception to all societal rules. It requires an obsessive focus that few people can muster.

Part of fitness lifestyles is weight loss. There are extensive libraries of ways to achieve weight loss. At Healthline.com, you will find a list of 23 popular diets and reviews. Several of these are difficult to follow.

People ask me how I manage to keep slim with my mobility problems. I indicate that it takes perseverance and exercise. I make it a point to walk each day despite difficulties and balance issues. Exercise or any movements of (at least) 20 minutes continuous can reap benefits to muscles all over your body. Exceeding 20 minutes reap more benefits but only if you can keep up a routine. Some research shows multiple short exercise periods per day may be as beneficial as a long period. But can you maintain that routine.

Gyms and recreational areas fill up for those four to six weeks of fitness related New Year resolutions but then drop to normal. Those stationary bicycles and treadmills you bought lie dormant until another year flies by.

Changing to fitness lifestyles is a slow and sometimes painful process. Weight loss and strength often are very slow. It can take about two years to shed 10 pounds or exercise up a couple levels. After years of bad behavioral habits, your body craves fatty and carbohydrate filled foods. It craves rest over movement. Starting a fitness lifestyle often means battling what your inner body needs for balance. Results are achieved when you win in the long term. Your body gets accustomed to the new lifestyle. To proceed further, you need to apply more pressure.

Your cells require fats as they are made of lipids. Certain neurons in your brain crave sugar and fats and form addictions. Withdrawals are akin to a heroin user trying to abstain.

It’s fairly easy to understand why obesity and weakness continue to expand in percentages as people become more sedentary. There’s no pain and you only gain pounds and inches. Fitness lifestyles are painful and there may be some masochism to reach that fitness-based high. I concede that fitness lifestyles begin as akin to punishments. In the long road ahead, though, it may pay off with greater happiness as you age.

So, when you see a beautiful person at any age over 50, chances are that genes and fitness have been assistive team players. At 77, Jane Fonda and lifestyle choices make many people cry with envy. Why cry? Eat wiser and then go for a walk. Do it each day. It helps if you can do this every day. Great pay offs don’t come quickly but you’ll eventually feel better.

Getting and being fit is easier when you watch and follow with these available video instructions. There are no sure things that you’ll appear as fit as Jane Fonda at age 77. When you consider Jane Fonda and lifestyle choices, your appearance, strength, energy, and attitudes may be much better as you age. The pay offs will be visible.

Mean is average and average is mean. Mean is a statistical term that defines average. It is often used in academic studies in finance, psychology, and medicine. Regressing to the mean is one of Sigmund Freud’s early psychoanalytic defenses. Regression is like a retreat. Average people often seek self-improvement to lose weight, quit smoking, become better educated, improve appearance, and many other things. There’s lots of advice that seem simple and sensible. Action is easy but, following through the course, regressing to the mean seems to be a powerful force.

Weight loss is a often sought and some go to extremes to lose weight. One of my early internships involved following obese people and their results after bariatric surgery for weight loss. Bariatric surgery is an extreme surgical method to help obese people lose weight. One method reduces stomach size to reduce capacity of food intake. The goal of these patients include dreams along a menu of life changes. Tracking results, many were happy initially. Over longer periods, weight slowly returned. Imposed post-surgical lifestyle changes fade as individuals start regressing to the mean. It’s their average lifestyle and, slowly, the weight returns. Many patients felt hurt and found that the surgery did not provide the life changes they fantasized about.

Basically, if you can stick with a healthy diet and exercise, experts say you’ll enjoy extremely satisfying results. That means, of course, a long-term lifestyle approach. A normal deviation in motivation, regressing to the mean of your normal pre-surgical behavior, confounds all you went through in pursuing bariatric surgery in the first place.

Dentists caution patients that routine examinations, twice a year, are recommended. They advise frequent brushing and flossing in between. Many dentists tell me that many patients who have had gum disease surgery may follow instructions for a couple weeks. On their follow-up, many show retreating gum disease evidence and admit that they stopped flossing. Surgery is treatment. It is not a cure. People don’t realize that an after-care success means a lifestyle change. Regressing to the mean may financially drain you.

When it comes to weight loss, there are hundreds of methods to follow. Most try and succeed in the short term of weeks, months, or a couple years. Once they go back to “normal”, the weight returns.

Following through with life changes requires mind over matter. It sounds easy, very logical. It isn’t. Matter is constant. It follows strict rules and balances. Mind, as thought, fluctuates and shifts as moods and ideas conflict with what you focus. Inconstancy obstructs the concentration needed to follow through thoroughly with a life change. Selecting a goal to pursue wellness requires tricking your body’s constancy to maintain homeostasis – matter’s balances. Lifestyle changes require slow methodical shifts and new enduring habits to make matter respond to your mind. Whatever your individual goal might be, you are battling against thousands if not millions of years of life sustaining matter that instinctively survives. Regressing to the mean means matter is often stronger than mind.

Your body is a finely tuned system. There are many organic cells that make up all your body parts. Some seem simple. Others, like brain neurons, may be more complex. Then there are germs, like bacteria and fungi, lurking between them all. Each cell has a key functional lifestyle and needs the fundamental nutrients. If it doesn’t get them, it can die. If it gets too much, it can grow or die. While each cell may seem independent, what each does is integral to body functioning.

As you age, cells (with genetic coding) change. Skin and muscles waste. Neurons in the brain may lose certain connections. You seem to be fatter than before and have less energy to make those life changes. If you are over 40, you have to work harder and harder to try to win over losing elasticity and appearance. Yet natural aging induces hormonal changes and those affect your performance on several levels. As you age, engaging significant life changes seem more challenging. That’s because matter is winning over mind.

The concept of aging is not linear. Several factors contribute to age but they are more guesses than facts. They are variables. Becoming senile or getting dementia when you are older may be attributed to aging but neuroscientists find that long-term stimulation may restore lost memory pathways in normal brains. More studies show that http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140428163639.htm muscle development, energy, and mood in an aging population. Exercising these variables may pay off with better, longer lives. Might be a gamble. Is it worth it?

Enduring lifestyles require the tenacity and stubbornness to follow through that mind can control matter, at least in some ways. Both mentally and physically dietary changes mixed with exercise cite evidence that (while you may not live longer) you may live better. Those stubborn people are still a scant minority. Most are constantly regressing to the mean.

Fortunately, technology doesn’t require playing tennis, polo, swimming, and running through years. Playing computer games provides mental, social, and physical exercises that, as a lifestyle, may help keep your cells stimulated. Supplemental use of massive multiplayer online games may stimulate coordination, imagination, and dexterity. One must remember that games alone aren’t the answer. Overuse may lead to game addictive behaviors that may harm more than support. Various sources of lifestyle stimulation are necessary.

Mind over matter has been an eternal conflict and it is much simple to submit towards regressing to the mean. Your body is a machine that requires to eat for energy and will stimulate hunger. The basic idea is to expend those calories into physical and mental activity. Thinking uses calories too but doing both help longevity considerably. Your body wasn’t made for eating potato chips in front of the TV, after a full meal.

Changing lifestyles for life changes may be hard. Any change from the mean meets difficulties. There’s a lot of peer pressure and advertising against alternate lifestyles. You’ll reach points when you can’t cover the fat, or iron your wrinkles and you may resort to invasive measures with vague results. Slow, methodical lifestyle changes push your body to slowly adapt to those changes. The sooner you choose and endure a lifestyle, over time, you’ll see changes that might make you smile.

Implementing a lifestyle change may be a difficult challenge. The results are often painfully slow. Your body will bother you to regress. If you persist, and monitor your health, results will come. Persisting is hard but results may satisfy.

Regressing to the mean is easy. Most people are mean. Living better requires some sacrifices. It is tough to live long, healthy, and happy (let alone prosper). Choosing and accepting a life changing lifestyle over time is a positive move. If you can endure a chosen lifestyle, mind over matter become one synergistic power. Are you mean?

When it comes to weight loss, carbohydrates are often viewed as the bad guys. Yet, we are the descendants of people that have eaten carbohydrates as food staples. Why are carbohydrates getting such bad press? Can they actually help with weight loss? What should you know?

As you escalate upwards on clothing sizes and notice bulges where you don’t want them, it may be time to consider weight loss. Many diets over the past 10 years have been lashing out on those nasty carbohydrates (carbs) and are professing that minimizing carbs help lead to weight loss quickly. The problem is we love our carbs. We need our carbs.

Carbohydrates are sugars and starches that are naturally found in most foods, excluding meat and fish. Basically, if it’s a plant (fruit, vegetable, legume,grain), juice, or dairy product, there are naturally occurring sugars or starches. Foods high in carbohydrates are an important part of a healthy diet.

Historically, people had high carbohydrate breakfasts because these natural sugars and starches provide bursts of energy required to start the day. In those days, people worked on farms and ranches. There were no cars and more people walked where ever they needed to travel to or rode on horses (that required upkeep). Carbs were considered great for most times in human history and, currently, in most uncivilized areas.

In civilized countries, sedentary lives suffer from too much carbohydrate intake. People drive cars, work with personal computers, and all sorts of mobile devices. Physical activity is more of an option as many more people choose to go home and watch TV for a few hours. Is this you?

Carbohydrates provide the body with glucose, which is converted to energy used to support bodily functions and physical activity. Your brain requires carbs for thinking as do many cellular networks. Sedentary lifestyles, following traditional eating habits formed for thousands of years, find that their trim bodies grow larger and they can’t figure out why.

A key problem is in society itself. Many “bought” foods use processed grains and add sugars to make them more palatable. These carbs are fine if you plan to go running for fifteen minutes after eating. The reason is these are simplex carbohydrates. These have simple, easily digestible carbs that are quickly absorbed by the body.

Then there are complex carbohydrates that naturally occur in fruits and vegetables. The key difference between simple and complex carbs isn’t easily seen by your eye. It’s at microscopic levels. A carbohydrate is a molecule. Complex carbs have larger molecules than simple carbohydrates.

To understand this, you must be aware that our planet and everything on the planet and its atmosphere are made of atoms. There are many different types of atoms. When atoms are mixed together, you get molecules. For example, two hydrogen atoms meet one oxygen atom and, when they get together, the result is water. Zillions of these atomic bonds comprise our oceans. Carbohydrates are molecules, a group of atoms bonded together, representing the smallest fundamental unit of a chemical compound. There are many different carbohydrate molecules and those differences lie in what makes one better for you than others.

Foods containing the healthiest sources of carbohydrates—unprocessed or minimally processed whole grains, vegetables, fruits and beans—promote good health by delivering vitamins, minerals, fiber, and a host of important phytonutrients (nutritive molecules that help distinguish one food from another). Less healthy sources of carbohydrates include white bread, pastries, sodas, and other highly processed or refined foods. These items contain easily digested carbohydrates that may contribute to weight gain, interfere with weight loss, and promote diabetes and heart disease.

How can carbohydrates promote heart disease? Excess sugar in the bloodstream can contribute to plaque, arterial wall residue and releases a hormone called insulin from your pancreas. Carbohydrates (starches and sugars) raise blood sugar levels and trigger the release of insulin. Insulin helps leads in the reduction of excess sugars and starches in the bloodstream that would be thickening blood, in high amounts. Insulin helps convert those carbs into energy.

When there are problems with insulin production, thicker blood in arteries can result in plaque that could disrupt vascular flow to your heart, brain, or elsewhere. This may contribute to strokes, heart attacks, and issues throughout the body.

One of the problems that can occur over time, in previously healthy individuals, is the development of insulin resistance. Insulin resistance is a condition in which the body produces insulin but does not use it effectively. When people have insulin resistance, glucose builds up in the blood instead of being absorbed by the cells, leading to type 2 diabetes or pre-diabetes. Type-2 diabetes is usually found among obese people. In insulin resistance, muscle, fat, and liver cells do not respond properly to insulin and thus cannot easily absorb glucose from the bloodstream. As a result, the body needs higher levels of insulin to help glucose enter cells. This is hyperglycemia, a condition of insulin resistance, where not enough insulin can be produced to deal with excessive carbohydrate consumption.

On the other side of the coin, there’s a hypoglycemia condition. Hypoglycemia may be a result that, when carbs are present in your bloodstream, excess insulin attacks them. Hypoglycemia is a condition characterized by an abnormally low level of blood sugar (glucose), your body’s main energy source. Normally, there are certain pancreatic beta cells that help bring carbs to the cells but the flow is disrupted. In many cases, hypoglycemia occurs after meals because the body produces more insulin than is needed.
For those with hypoglycemia, excessive simple carbs can result in confusion, sleepiness, and (in extreme cases) unconsciousness. Other possible symptoms may include:

•Heart palpitations
•Shakiness
•Anxiety
•Sweating
•Hunger

When hunger occurs, a hypoglycemic is not satisfied after eating a full meal and feels the need to eat more. Eating more helps lead to excess weight gain and, perhaps, a higher degree of exhaustion.

How does your body react to carbs? There’s a rather long, tedious blood test that illustrates what happens after high-carb intake. The glucose tolerance test acts as a guide for you and your physician to take proper steps.

Carbohydrate consumption and problems associated with it may often be genetically linked, inherited through familial generations. In some ways, this may account for body appearance, and energy levels throughout a life span. Often, it can go undetected for many years under routine medical care.

Considering weight loss with carbohydrates? It is possible. The United States Department of Agriculture or USDA provides an excellent website with tons of information and recipes for each meal. Carb lovers needn’t worry. Slight modifications to how and when you eat, and how much you physically move, may contribute to an enduring weight loss program.

Carbs may not necessarily be the evil behind weight gain. How you consume carbs, especially mixed with excess saturated fats, may contribute to excess pounds. Consider that when you down a 4 ounce bad of chips and a liter of soda while wat5ching TV.

Knowing and using appropriate carbs and moving more actively may just help you achieve weight loss over time. Carbs are part of our history and are very addictive. Adapting responsible carb intake into a sedentary lifestyle may not be an easy task. Total carb withdrawal can be dangerous. Finding the responsible path may require aid from a certified nutritionist. Over years, you may find that your excess pounds have shed and your energy has improved, if you understand the virtues and dangers of carbs. It’s a lifestyle adaptation for the new lifestyle. It is not a quick-fix!

Is society still about books and book covers? You couldn’t tell if you looked at June Squibb, the 84 year old star from the Nebraska movie, and noticed her fashionable, radiant appearance at the Oscar Awards red carpet. Though the octogenarian appears like a great-grandmother, she mentioned that she had played a stripper in the Broadway cast of Gypsy in 1960. Who would have guessed? It’s alarming how age helps change the human form. Accepting fashion to your form is normal but many get anxious and frustrated as they shift from vital, young fashions to somewhat matronly designs. Isn’t it hard being true to your fashion?

Fashion is image and fashion and form are related. Aging often changes a woman’s idea of being fashionable as skin softens and the nature of naturally gaining fat and losing lean muscle creeps up. Buddha once wrote, “Without health life is not life. It is only a state of languor and suffering – an image of death.” In a society where obesity is on the rise, remaining fashionably youthful as you age means maintaining health and activity. As you find yourself moving up from small to medium to large and extra large, your self-image declines. Is it because of age? Is it because of lifestyle? Are you true to your fashion?

Most fashion models display clothing in true, artistic form but most of these models retire before age 30, and only few retain their amazing figures. This puts normal people to shame. Does that mean that “normal” means losing a fashionable image?

Fashion is designed for normal people but people’s norms vary to the extent they want to remain fashionable. On Red-Carpet displays, fashion is demonstrated in all shapes and sizes. It’s a rational definition. Most women develop anxieties as they see their sizes rise and their forms distort what they had once believed to be attractive. As women leap through menopause, any irrational anxiety is amplified many times. Does age mean you need to be fat?

Preventing the eventual image of dying and death is a difficult one. Waiting to pursue an active lifestyle at age 60 is like taking on climbing the highest mountain. Is it possible? It is. Only 1 in 10,000 manage to follow through.

Fitness and diet as a lifestyle often runs contrary to your ethnic foods and media advertising. Fitness needs to be integrated at young ages and diet needs to be learned over a lifetime. Will life be healthy or not? Barring genetic and other chronic diseases, most people could maintain fashionability by doing low-impact exercise each day.

Walking is a perfect exercise and walking at a brisk pace for 30 minutes daily is an excellent routine to be true to your fashion. Many women tend to be goal oriented when walking. There must be a destination. Only a small portion of people enjoy walking for pleasure. A constant walk on a firm surface can burn upwards from 100 calories per hour, based on a 150-pound person. Carrying and walking with 15 pounds of groceries can burn about 40 calories in 15 minutes.

Walking has been shown to have cardiovascular benefits. According to an article in New England Journal of Medicine, constant walking aids in reducing the risks of cardiovascular diseases. According to a Harvard study, among 72,488 female nurses, walking at least three hours a week was linked to a 35% lower risk of heart attack and cardiac death and a 34% lower risk of stroke. Chronic sitting will add to weight gain and cardiovascular risks.

Walking alone requires more effort for weight loss and being true to your fashion goals. Basically, walking to expend 500 calories per day (while following a low fat diet) each day may help you lose one pound per week. In essence, walking gets you moving and more movement brings increased weight loss.

The fashion industry isn’t blind and more stores, like Forever 21 for example provide affordable and stylish clothes for those who wear “plus sizes”. If this is true to your fashion decisions, this is fashionably satisfying.

If you are plagued by anxieties regarding weight, form, and image, targeting to get back to your optimal weight may seem a herculean task. Using a combination of hormone replacement therapy (that may indirectly help get you moving) and exercising/walking 300 to 500 calories per day may just help you meet your true to your fashion desires. Can you do it?

Sometimes body size is a product of genetics or may be associated with certain diseases, many yet to be discovered. Surgical procedures may help reshape your body but, often, for only short terms. These people may find fashionability as well. Not everyone can be a size 4 or 6. Being true to your fashion is understanding your reality and expression.

Fashion is associated with art, science, fantasy, self-esteem, and a sense of empowerment. Feeling fashionable may be your positive. It is frustrating when you look at your appearance change over decades. Where did your style go? Staying and being true to your fashion and style is an activity that may elevate your mood in many ways. To get back to size 6 takes lots of effort when you haven’t done any for over 10 years. Sometimes you may need to adjust to your new body or work double hard to get one you like better. Are you true to your fashion?

You are what you eat. Carbohydrates play large roles in most diets around the world. In countries where people are less active, these carbohydrates may lead to many averse health conditions, including obesity and diabetes. Carbohydrates are addictive. It’s very hard to eliminate use every day. Are there ways to control carbohydrates that are easy and effective?

Among the problems of today’s American diet are the necessity to focus on processed grain-based foods, such as breads, noodles, and pastas. These are rich in carbohydrates. Your body, through the pancreas, releases insulin to metabolize them. Most of these processed foods are full of simple sugars and starches that help boost energy quickly. Consequently, if you start sitting or doing relatively inactive work, the remaining carbs turn to fat. There are two mediators for this process and are available as supplements – Cinnamon and Chromium. These two haven been proven to be helpful to control carbohydrates in normal diets.

According to research, keeping blood sugar in check does everything from enhancing weight and fat loss and decreasing appetite to warding off several chronic diseases like heart disease, diabetes, etc. In contrast, foods that are rapidly digested and quickly released into the blood promote overeating, obesity, insulin resistance, and other metabolic disturbances contributing to disease. Nutritional Chromium is a carbohydrate stabilizer but many do not get enough from foods. Fortunately, most multiple vitamins may include Chromium as an essential mineral. The big surprise is that Cinnamon (sticks or powder), a spice found in most grocery supermarkets, is also effective with metabolizing carbohydrates.

A review of studies cite varied evidence that cinnamon may play a role with certain forms of sugar metabolic diseases, particularly diabetes.

Ironically, cinnamon offers about 8 grams of carbohydrates per tablespoon serving. Somehow, though, it is an effective method to control carbohydrates.

Cinnamon is a common spice, often used in baking, cereal. coffee, and other foods as a flavoring. It has a semi-sweet taste. Taking a cinnamon supplement can help speed up the metabolism of carbohydrates and moderate your craving for more throughout the day. Cinnamon (according to nutrition belief) may be beneficial for stabilizing your blood sugar; also helpful with suppressing fatigue by giving you energy. Cinnamon increases the stabilizing effect of insulin while reducing insulin resistance. It does this by:

1) Activating the enzymes to stimulate insulin receptors.

2) Helps with blood sugar is by enhancing the effects of insulin-signaling pathways in your skeletal muscle tissue.

Use of Chromium also aids in the metabolism of carbohydrates. According to research, chromium studies cite evidence that it may even be beneficial in controlling type-2 diabetes that is becoming more common in the USA.

Key functions of chromium:
1) Helps insulin facilitate the entrance of glucose into your cells and is a requirement for energy.

2) May influence cholesterol levels by improving its metabolism.

3) Is crucial to blood sugar and cholesterol metabolism and has become popular in weight loss programs. You can use chromium to support glucose metabolism if you have diabetes or hypoglycemia (low blood sugar).

As an alternative approach to dealing with hyperglycemia and e3levated cholesterol issues, chromium picolinate and GTF chromium may play supportive roles in treatment of certain diabetes cases. If you are diabetic, and you are concerned with chronic use of traditional medications, you are advised to consult with your doctor or a certified nutritionist before following a chromium regimen that may require higher doses. Supplemental chromium may definitively aid those who want to control carbohydrates on a routine basis.

There are several types of chromium supplements available, such as chromium chloride, chromium polynicotinate (GTF Chromium) and chromium picolinate. Chromium picolinate is remarkably stable and remains intact for several hours in synthetic gastric juice. The comparative data results of chromium picolinate versus other forms of chromium demonstrated that it is the most effective form to facilitate glucose control. It was also observed that chromium picolinate is better absorbed physiologically (2.5%) than chromium chloride (0.5-1%) and chromium acetate (0.8%); chromium oxide is not absorbed at all (0.001%). Effective doses seem to be in the range of 200 to 600 micrograms (0.2 to 0.6 mg) but, again, please consult your physician or certified nutritionist prior to beginning a routine supplement regimen.

Cinnamon, or rather one of the constituents of cinnamon, has been shown to be helpful at controlling the onset of Alzheimer Disease, a rising neuro-cognitive condition. Most of these cinnamon Alzheimer studies are in the animal phase.

Controlled doses of cinnamon has been shown to have some positive effect on menstrual cycles among some women suffering with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS). So…in addition to cinnamon’s ways to control carbohydrates, it is seen as a possible wonder drug in other diseases and conditions. It’s possible that early alchemists used cinnamon medicinally.

Cinnamon has been used as a flavor enhancing spice for thousands of years. People sprinkle cinnamon in coffee, tea, and cereals. Cinnamon is found in cookies and cakes. The amounts of cinnamon used in recipes are generally small. No negative side effects were ever reported. Therapeutic doses of cinnamon are much higher. These higher doses of cinnamon in capsule form have not really been tested for effects by scientific scrutiny.

One of the flavonoids found in cinnamon is Coumarin. High doses of Coumarin have been shown to negatively effect the liver with chronic use. Many sources of cinnamon have low levels of Coumarin but one form, Cassia cinnamon, has higher levels. It’s important to find the source of the cinnamon when used for therapy.

Subsequently, a recent study in Finland has provided evidence that Coumarin has possible anti-inflammatory effects when used as an ingredient. Consequently, the anti-coagulant properties of Coumarin are used in blood-thinning drugs that can have serious side effects. Taking huge doses of Cassia cinnamon may be beneficial in some ways and dangerous in others. So when you want to control carbohydrates in your diet, it is very advisable to discuss capsule dosages with a certified nutritionist.

Among exercisers, Chromium is the essential element that helps promote endurance and is included in relatively high doses in performance supplements. Chromium is believed to control carbohydrates by aiding protein to build muscle mass, though there is little scientific support for Chromium as an ergogenic. At best, Chromium might help regulate the carbohydrate stream to muscles, allowing for a stream of continued energy through a workout.

According to Dr. Andrew Weil, Chromium is a major and essential aspect to control carbohydrates in the metabolism of sugar. He also believes that Chromium may help raise HDL (good cholesterol) levels and improve heart health. He estimates that up to 50% of people in the United States may be deficient in Chromium and can account to higher development of diabetes and certain metabolic syndromes that people complain about. Chromium is found in small quantities in foods such as brewer’s yeast, calf liver, whole grains, processed meats and cheese. Supplementation is recommended.

According to the University of Maryland Medical Center, “As many as 90% of American diets are low in chromium, but it’s rare to be truly deficient in chromium. The elderly, people who do a lot of strenuous exercise, those who eat a lot of sugary foods, and pregnant women are most likely to be deficient in chromium. Low chromium levels can increase blood sugar, triglycerides (a type of fat in the blood), cholesterol levels, and increase the risk for a number of conditions, such as diabetes and heart disease.” As a possible side effect, overdosing on Chromium may There are some reports that chromium may make depression and anxiety or schizophrenia worse, although other reports suggest it helps depression. As with all supplements in the United States, further research is necessary.

Dietary intakes of chromium cannot be reliably determined because the content of the mineral in foods is substantially affected by agricultural and manufacturing processes. Based on supplement absorption through capsules, the general opinion is that 200 micrograms of Chromium per day is considered safe for most non-diabetic people.

WebMD indicates “that taking excessive chromium supplements can lead to stomach problems and low blood sugar (hypoglycemia). Too much chromium from supplements can also damage the liver, kidneys, and nerves, and it may cause irregular heart rhythm. But side effects from taking chromium supplements are rare.” Antacids inhibit Chromium absorption.

Cinnamon and Chromium help control carbohydrates. When used responsibly, they may provide many health promoting results. Keep in mind that high-dosing either of these in lieu of following a responsible, balanced diet will confound your dietary goals and ambitions. Research is expanding on Chromium and Cinnamon and their association with controlling and treating other diseases. Common and inexpensive, these two supplements may be perfect for the low-to-moderate carb addicts that comprise most people in the USA. Because cinnamon is a common food additive, adding and using it in healthy recipes may help curb that addiction.

There are many self-improvement books and ideas. Socially, people realize that others are attracted by appearance. That is why diet systems prevail. Isagenix or Isogenics is another dietary method that works to cleanse and nourish your body. It works by eliminating impurities from the body, while, at the same time, supplying the body with the super nutrients it needs for optimum health. Isogenics and Isagenix are synonymous and based on the Isagenix brand.

Body cleansing programs are found in 48-hour, 7-day, 9-day, and 30-day programs. The idea is to shy away from processed foods and shift to whole foods that also supply natural fiber and enzymes to promote digestion. Under normal circumstances, weight loss can be seen. The key point here is normal and, before pursuing an isogenics or Isagenix diet, seek advice from your doctor.

People prone to constipation may be less sensitive to dietary fiber found in most foods or have a health condition. For those people who may not need to make a bowel movement for days, a laxative might be recommended. Within a few days, 2 to 5 pounds weight loss occurs. Unless, though, you nourish yourself wisely and drink plenty of water, you’ll experience exhaustion.

It is somewhat similar to the cleansing prior to a colonoscopy. Regular weight returns in a few days.

Some people suffer from bulimia, an affective and addictive disorder. Bulimics tend to exhibit depression and anxiety about body appearance. They regularly use products such as self-induced vomiting, the use of laxatives, dieting, or fasting. These methods are not what cleansing is all about.

Some people with thyroid conditions such as hupothyroidism or those using blood thinners may be advised to avoid:
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Kale
Brussels Sprouts
Mustard Greens
Radishes
Spinach
Strawberries
Peaches
Soy-Based Foods
Peanuts

that may irritate their conditions.

Isagenix is a discipline, as with any approach to dietary goals. It requires motivation and endurance, plus recommended exercise in routine moderation.
Isagenix works best for people who are about 10% to 30% overweight. Do not expect overnight miracles and do not practice going off and on the diet. It works, used as directed, if repeated routinely and with proper food intake. Isagenix is a supplement, not FDA approved, designed to help you along your desired path.

I studies a group of extremely overweight people in one of my internships of addictive disorders. These were candidates for and patients that had bariatric surgery to decrease stomach capacity and curb eating habits. Ironically, few of the two hundred people followed had actually lost and continued loss to more normal weight. Bariatric surgery is a tool. It isn’t a cure.

Isagenix is a tool. Isagenix isn’t meant to be a cure. Isagenix is a cleansing process and it may send you the bathroom more often. It is milder than laxatives and works over a longer time frame to eliminate toxins.

Isagenix is a supplement that aids cleansing. Your body is designed to constantly gather up and remove toxins from your cells. Most of the toxins that are stirred up from your cells are broken down in your liver, and then eliminated from your body via your kidneys, colon, skin, lungs, and mucus linings in your nose and ears. While some toxins may be necessary to cell maintenance, Isagenix needs to be used in either 9-day or 30-day frames to help you reach and stabilize goals.

Used as a weight loss tool, the Isagenix products may be fine as part of a routine. As a cure for chronic pains and conditions you may need to consult your physician. Many chronic health challenges take years to develop, so it’s unrealistic to expect such challenges to fully heal within months, even if you fully support your cleansing mechanisms. Isagenix must be used wisely and, if you take medications, your doctor should be advised of your Isagenix routine.

People come in all shapes and sizes. Genetic predisposition may be a prime factor. Isagenix doesn’t claim to rid cellulite or hip sizes. Isagenix may help you follow an enduring path with weight loss maintenance. Isagenix is only a tool to help modify tour lifestyle. The results are, ultimately, up to you.

Isagenix has a program, similar to Avon, to help you spread the word. For me, this reeks of scam. Yet, if you believe that Isagenix is that good for you, then spread the word and make money. This part, however, I’m sort of uncomfortable with. I guess this is why Isagenix or Isogenics came up in many conversations.

Detox has been discussed by many health practitioners and there are many products to help you detox. Is Isagenix the best product? I don’t know. The idea is once you choose to begin a detox cleanse program you should check with your doctor. If it’s okay, start and set it as a routine lifestyle.